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by jogjayr 8y ago
No one blinks at multiple 2-year stints, especially if they were spent at smallish companies (< 500 employees). Spending 2 years usually means you went through at least 2 performance review cycles, accomplished or delivered something and
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That seems like suboptimal policy - even to a layman like me. For one, if you're not making money off an asset you're already paying a "tax" in terms of opportunity cost. Second, it feels unfair - taxes are the price w
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Mohandas aka Mahatma Gandhi (not "Ghandi", please) went to law school in England and had a successful law practice in Apartheid-era South Africa. He was considered a pillar of the Indian community in SA, one of its major civic lea
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Good point about Einstein. It's true that bright minds also go after problems they think are important, regardless of what everyone else thinks. Haranguing masses can decide what gets funded. Einstein's research didn't need m
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The converse view is that problem solvers emerge because we keep making dire predictions. The best way to motivate people (especially bright people) is to convince them their work has higher meaning. If a problem being solved isn't h
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by jogjayr 8y ago
This seems a bit like the Y2K problem. Even if we collectively get our sh*t together and manage to avert the worst effects of the crisis, there are always going to be people who will wonder what all the fuss was about. And conspiracy theori
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by jogjayr 8y ago
> I drive a pickup truck so I'd like to reduce my impact You could...drive it a lot less :-)
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Things have gotten worse over the past 20 years though. The predictions might've been wrong about the rate of change (and I'm assuming this was a reputable source making the prediction, not cherry-picking the most extreme doomsa
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by jogjayr 8y ago
It depends. For a mature business like Walmart, you'd look at EBITDA, and margins to arrive at a valuation. For a growth business, especially a SaaS business, revenue might be used until there's actual earnings.
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If they have $600MM revenue, then even applying a modest 5x multiplier would give them a $3B valuation right? And 10x might be closer to what they might actually fetch if they were to ever sell.
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by jogjayr 8y ago
India and China both have leadership that acknowledge the existence of anthropogenic climate change and is taking active measures. That would seem like table stakes but unfortunately we live in a world where that's not a given. India p
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by jogjayr 8y ago
There's always people that want to move back home to be closer to family or their culture but are put off by the lower salaries.
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by jogjayr 8y ago
I suspect that as solar and wind go more mainstream, driving power prices negative, we'll need to do something with all that excess energy. Grid-scale battery storage is one option but another might be to do things that would be otherw
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Effectively critiquing ideas without hurting feelings is a powerful skill, hard to master, and shouldn't be written off. IME there are only 2 reliable ways to get people to do what you want: you have authority to tell them to do it, or
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by jogjayr 8y ago
They were a jerk in a situation where both parties are supposed to be on their best behavior. Can you imagine how it must be dealing with them on a day-to-day basis?
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by jogjayr 8y ago
You should probably roll back the commit that broke production though, instead of hastily pushing something out hoping you'll fix it. And ideally you should've been doing a gradual rollout, deploying on a few machines first then s
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by jogjayr 8y ago
I have both once failed fizzbuzz in an interview and gotten offers from FAANG companies (different interviews, obviously). At the time I failed the fizzbuzz, I even knew it was a fizzbuzz question i.e. I'd read Jeff Atwood or Joel Sp
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Haha! How about a hyperspace-capable drone then? Or literally thousands or millions (ya I get the Rebellion is skint but drones can't cost that much) of them, one to every single star system, and then broadcast the plans to every Galac
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Sorry, I thought it was obvious that for a guy like Asimov, talking science and telling jokes were both enjoyable activities :-) . Yes liked doing it - it wasn't forced on him by economic hardship. > Depends on whether the audience
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by jogjayr 8y ago
If you have to write a comment to explain every definition, you've failed to make the code sufficiently readable and simple to understand IMHO. Code-level comments can become outdated without eagle-eyed code-reviewers. The code itself
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by jogjayr 8y ago
He actually ended up with close to 400 by the time he died :-) If someone offers you a nice fat check to talk about science and make jokes for an hour, would you turn it down? No matter how many books you'd already written?
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by jogjayr 8y ago
I think the major thing Asimov misses in some of his writing is are the 2nd and 3rd order effects of technology. Not always - Solaria from The Naked Sun comes to mind as a society heavily distorted by their tech - but often. And this led
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by jogjayr 8y ago
Asimov was a well-regarded, in-demand public speaker. It's been a long time since I read his autobiography but I think talks and lectures were one of his major sources of income after writing. It's not surprising that he seems goo
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by jogjayr 8y ago
If it's a FAANG-type company, the stock has done well in the past 10 years so it's been a pretty good bet to make. Public tech companies have done well overall. Sign-on bonuses don't have a vesting period. That's why the
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GP didn't say $125k total comp. Counting sign-on, bonus, and stock, it could be as much as $200k total comp - for a new grad. Which other cities/industries pay that much? (outside of finance or law, at the top end)
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by jogjayr 8y ago
How productive would you be at your current job if you were told you'll be forced out in 6 months, no matter how happy your stakeholders are with your work?
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No hope for electric planes then? Or high-speed train travel?
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> These new users often lack training in leave-no-trace principles and result in blown-out trails and piles of used toilet paper behind every nearby tree. I suspect that our cash-strapped parks and forest services will impose visitor lim
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> The insult to those people would be to have them spend their lives doing something so meaningless Why is working on power storage and generation meaningless? Cheap energy is literally the basis of our civilization, tech, and standard o
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by jogjayr 8y ago
> But the trouble is that there are hundreds of factors that correlate with protected group membership. Are you going to ban them all? It's a tough question to answer. I believe you were debating me about the use of ZIP code as a pr

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